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Ideally, your trademark is a unique word or design. But what are your options if the mark is descriptive or contains geographic terms? This is where the Supplemental Register may be an option. The Supplemental Register serves as a gateway for trademarks not yet eligible for the Principal Register’s full protection. It offers valuable benefits Read More

An inventor is someone who has taken part in either the concept or the reduction to practice that is the making of an invention, which is completely different than ownership. Most inventions, in fact, are not owned by the inventor. The inventor is most likely an engineer that works for a big company and he’s Read More

Well, there certainly is a lot of back and forth with the patent office, dealing with examiners, sometimes by telephone, most of the time in writing, but the art of a patent application is the drafting of the claims, and this is so important, and I think that local inventors, small inventors don’t really understand Read More

The concept of Trademark Likelihood of Confusion is fundamental in the world of intellectual property law. Essentially, it refers to the risk that consumers may confuse one trademark with another due to similarities in appearance. Sound, meaning, or overall impression. This confusion can lead to a variety of negative outcomes, including loss of business, dilution Read More

When people come into us, we give them a little bit of, kind of patents 101, and we tell them what it’s all about. And even with companies, even sometimes larger companies, we will actually do a presentation, and we want these people to understand what patents are all about. Engineers, for example, often are Read More

If I go with what is called the Madrid Protocol, I present my U.S. trademark, present it to Madrid, they go ahead, they make an international registration. Now the international registration, it means they review the form, make sure it qualifies as far as physically what’s in the application, that all the components are there. Read More

Client comes in, he has his U.S. trademark he’s received or at least he’s filed for it, and now he wishes to file that trademark internationally. He asks me, what is the best way for me to get protection in the following eight foreign countries? I say, you have two options. You can take your Read More

With regard to confidentiality, one must understand that there’s no right to stop someone from copying your invention until your patent actually issues. Even after you file your patent application, even after the application is published by the patent office, you still cannot enforce it. And we give this advice to people. We can’t tell Read More